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See Page 46 See Page 4 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 11 NO. 40 22 SIVAN 5771 jre ,arp JUNE 24, 2011 See Page 17 INSIDE GENTLEMEN, START YOUR CROCK-POTS FROM THE EDITOR SummerSee Pages Travel 58–60, 76-80Section B Y LARRY GORDON The Unexpected Silence Doni Joszef 23 Dashed Dishes On Pollard Rabbi Meir Orlian 38 It was painful to watch the No More Excuses days pass with silent inaction. Eli Shapiro 68 The lack of words, however, spoke a great deal about the true Spying Out The Land feelings and the deep-seated Shmuel Katz 76 sentiments that lie in the heart of President Barack Obama when it comes to Israel and perhaps the Jewish community. At the least, it is very troubling and A scene from the popular JEP–LI Cholent Bowl, held last Thursday evening in the Five Towns. See Page 65 Continued on Page 4 Building A Torah Home HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE In The Age Of Scandals Orthodox Graffiti BY RAV ARYEH Z. GINZBERG shtetlach in Eastern Europe in CHOFETZ CHAIM TORAH CENTER the 19th century, parents have BY LARRY GORDON find the paper, take it home, and Lev Leytzan: Red Nose Awards. always had to struggle and peruse its usually informative See Page 40 Raising children in a healthy expend much energy in an For this newspaper, there are contents. Torah home and environment attempt to shield their children about 200 dispenser boxes on But these brown and black has never been easy, and most from the influences of the streets throughout Long Island newspaper dispenser boxes are often it has been extremely harmful environment that and the five boroughs of New more than that. When they are challenging. Whether it was existed all around them. While York City. The fact is rather empty, which is usually ancient Bavel; during the days no doubt many were success- innocuous and inconsequential. Monday through Wednesday, of Hillel and Shamai; in the ful, our painful history attests It’s simply a circulation tool to they serve as inanimate ambas- streets of Vilna in the time of make it more convenient for the Vilna Gaon; or in the small Continued on Page 14 readers and potential readers to Continued on Page 10 YG5T’s Big Breakfast Awakening AMERICA At Twilight GETS IT Grand Siyum at Yeshiva of Far Rockaway. See Page 40 From The Other Side BY RABBI AVI SHAFRAN Of The Bench BY DAVID J. SEIDEMANN, ESQ. Many people seemed happy to treat President Obama’s How will you spend your speeches last month on the glory years? What will you do Middle East and Israeli Prime when you no longer have to Minister Netanyahu’s before catch the early morning train Congress as some sort of sports Rav Yitzchok Knobel, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, Dr. Randy Makovsky (Keser to Penn Station? Is it ever too tournament, rooting and scor- Torah Awardee), and Rav Moshe Zev Katzenstein at the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns annual breakfast. See Page 60 Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 22 Geva Rapp of Panim el Panim. See Page 62 CANDLE LIGHTING June 24 – 8:11 PM July 1 – 8:11 PM 2 June 24, 2011 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 24, 2011 3 FROM THE EDITOR Continued from Front Cover quite distressing. The president rarely misses an oppor- tunity to speak about the American ded- ication to the rights of the individual anywhere in the world to live free and with dignity. He has expressed that con- cern about citizens of our country deal- ing with economic hardships to inno- cent Libyan citizens placed in harm’s way by a despotic regime and America’s obligation to act on their behalf. He is steadfast in his insistence that we as Americans and that he as our elected leader do the right things no matter how difficult, costly, or unpopular they may be. If the president feels that Jonathan Pollard did not deserve compassionate leave to attend his father’s funeral, then he should have been courageous enough to simply express his position on the matter. Why hide behind the silence? The deafening quiet is an affront to all of us—that is, all decent and civilized human beings. Obama, however, time and again uses and manipulates sys- tems—in this case the bureaucratic prison system—to promote what is over- all rapidly becoming his increasingly unpopular agenda. Barack Obama on Monday refused to allow Pollard to attend his father’s funeral in Indiana for two reasons. One is that he didn’t have to do it by law and the sec- ond is that he determined that political- ly—for now anyway—he could get away Continued on Page 6 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 [email protected] [email protected] LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Sales Managers CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Editorial Assistant SIDI BARON DAVID FOX DOV GORDON YAKOV SERLE Sales Representatives SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Yoni Glatt Toby Klein Greenwald, Rabbi Yair Hoffman Ron Jager, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Dr. Bernie Kastner, Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, Rabbi Meir Orlian Elke Probkevitz, Dr. Rachael Schindler Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, David J. Seidemann Rabbi Ben Tzion Shaﬁer, Rabbi Avi Shafran Eli Shapiro, Dr. Ari Sher, Samuel Sokol ELISHEVA ELEFANT Staff Graphic Artist IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Staff Photographers FRANKEL & CO. Design & Production TALIYE CORLEY Art Director The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly newspaper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. 4 June 24, 2011 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 24, 2011 5 FROM THE EDITOR president’s decision to simply ignore Continued from Page 4 the situation. There is an angry sense that under any with it. The point is that humanity, com- type of other similar situation the presi- passion, or basic human decency did not dent would have acted, but that a special enter into any of the considerations over brand of justice (or injustice) is always the last few days. available to be rendered when it comes to And while there was a full-court press the Pollard case. to get Pollard released for a day, the Many believed that would have effort did not appear to be wholeheart- shined a glimmer of light on the status ed. If it was, then it was a miserable fail- of the case if the administration had ure. This is precisely where the debate acted to allow the man to attend his lies. Could the organized American father’s funeral. Perhaps it would have Jewish leadership have acted more force- been a new and positive indication that fully or forthrightly? If so, would it have someone in the higher-ups of the admin- been worth the effort to achieve Mr. istration was thinking about Pollard’s Would it have been worth the effort to achieve Mr. Pollard’s exit from his imprisonment for a mere half day? Pollard’s exit from his imprisonment for disposition and that it was an issue a mere half day? important enough to act upon. Major Jewish organizations with the Unfortunately, in the aftermath of the image of influence and muscle issued a stillness that emanated from series of brief press releases at first urg- Washington, there is no choice but to ing the administration to allow Pollard conclude that this was indeed their to attend the funeral of his father, who clearly ennunciated response and that died at the age of 95, and then when despite the pressure, the message is that that request was met with a steely they plan to let the Pollard case linger silence, issued an additional release open-endedly without action. announcing their disappointment at the We have hashed over and analyzed 6 June 24, 2011 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES this horribly frustrating case way too American Jews in. many times in the past. There is really For many American Jews, the wound very little that is new to report. And there all these years later is all too fresh each is no choice but to come to the realiza- time the name Pollard is raised, conjuring tion that at this point, after all these up a whole new set of emotions about years, this case is no longer just about a the man and his actions. man that betrayed his position as a Navy The issue before us here and now is intelligence officer and gave or sold not whether there is an American-Jewish American secrets to Israel. Jonathan consensus about whether Pollard should Pollard exposed the most sensitive facet be released and be allowed to go live in that defines the nature and essence of Israel as he desires. The issue here is what it means for a person to be an about President Obama and his consis- American citizen loyal to his or her coun- tent reference in a whole plethora of sit- try, as well as an active and vociferous uations about the need to do the right supporter of Israel. thing—the American thing—as a man Pollard in a sense tipped the carefully with moral clarity and as the elected balanced scale and expressed to the leader of the free world.

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